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b'After a career as IT Director, Krzysztof D\\u0105browski became a COO at mBank - Poland\'s first digital bank that was a fintech before fintech was a thing.\\n\\nIn this episode of Leadership Deep Dive, Krzysztof D\\u0105browski talks with Hendrik Deckers about his passion for "stealing like an artist" from different management systems to approach complex operational challenges and to always be learning, even if he\'s exhausted the learning materials from a given domain.\\n\\nHe shares the behind-the-scenes view of building efficient operational processes and banking systems on the foundations of obsolete technologies. He dives into a transformation program that compiled COBOL applications into .Net in real time, without stopping any systems, and another that translated a proprietary language into one they could actually find programmers for.\\n\\n\\n\\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\\n\\n01:00 - Introduction: Krzysztof D\\u0105browski, COO of mBank\\n01:50 - about mBank - the first digital bank in Poland\\n03:20 - The role of COO at mBank and the operations transformation he led\\n10:50 - Defaulting on technological debt: compiling into a new language without slowing down the systems\\n20:00 - mBank\'s cloud ambition\\n22:30 - Translating the corporate banking core system\\n25:50 - How IT is organised at mBank: balancing agility and compliance processes\\n\\n mBank scaled agile model\\n navigating "agile islands"\\n\\n33:04 - The changing role of a CTO/CIO\\n36:05 - Krzysztof\'s management style\\n39:55 - Recruiting top talent in Poland\\n43:20 - mBank\'s innovation strategy, startup incubator and ecosystem\\n44:00 - What your team says about you when you\'re not around\\n45:58 - People and books that inspire Krzysztof \\n\\n The importance of surrounding yourself with kind people\\n You need to know good specialists when you see them, even if you don\'t understand their craft\\n\\n52:30 - The difficulty of keeping it simple\\n54:45 - The values he wants to pass on to his children\\n56:20 - His advice for future CIOs\\n\\n How learning new skills used to be different\\n Why you should do things you\'re not yet good at'